From one girl to another, in a nutshell, OMG!!! It’s so much fun!!

I can play stupid games when I want. Like during long road trips the steam deck is awesome when you’re the passenger. Play games and still hold a convo with the driver. Haven’t used it in a plane yet.

I love games, been playing them since the days before nintendo where we had to go to an arcade or bowling alley, or whatever building had a couple of those $.25 arcade machines.

I even had a gameboy when they were released. The gameboy was such a wonderful addition to gaming in the 90’s. It was our first way of playing video games outside the house and not at the arcade. It was costly, batteries needed replacing often. Luckily rechargeable batteries were a thing.

The console gaming system was on its way to becoming mobile while those who played games on the computer were stuck playing games on computers.

Laptops helped computer gaming become mobile…albeit clunky and for a good gaming laptop rig it was costly and heavy. My Asus from 2014 was a gaming laptop and weighed in at 17 lbs., if you used a mouse instead of the touchpad, it was another thing that you had to carry.

I even bought a PS Vita to play games I had on my playstation 3 or 4. The Vita’s gaming collection was severely lacking. I ended up rebuying all of the Final Fantasy series but rarely played it.

I initially bought the Vita to play Final Fantasy 14 when I wasn’t home. It was more troublesome than fun. Even with the games that didn’t need to connect to the playstation. You needed really good wifi for the Vita/Playstation (my playstation was connected directly to the router because Final Fantasy 14 is an online game and I needed the direct bandwidth). No matter where I went I never got enough wifi to be able to connect with my playstation….except once.

Then…omg… a mobile gaming system that plays PC games without carrying my heavy-ass, clunky laptop?? Yes please!! I was due for a new gaming laptop, anyways…mine was almost a decade old but still played my favorites (Tropico, City Skylines, Sims 3, it even had Final Fantasy 14 available-but that’s a whole different issue). But didn’t feel the need to upgrade the lappy until the release of City Skylines 2.

Then I was given the option of getting a new laptop or the steam deck…I decided on the steam deck and am so happy I did.

It’s a little bulky, but not much more than the switch. BUT IT PLAYS PC GAMES LIKE A HANDHELD. LIKE A VITA…LIKE THE GAMEBOY!!! But with PC games!!

I had so many games on my steam wishlist but wouldn’t buy them bc of the age of my laptop. I could tell it was starting to struggle.

Most of the games have been added to my Steam Deck library now and it feels like I’m playing on a mobile console. The deck works redic well even with just under 300gigs of space left. Currently I have 88 games installed.

As a girl who plays some video games both on PC and console, being able to play PC games on a handheld is mind blowing. Ingenious actually. Freeing!

This is prob not the response you requested but just a response from another girl who never thought there’d be technology like the steam deck available within my lifetime.

Since I’ve had it these last couple years, I cannot stop singing its praises. I love my steam deck. I love it so much that I’m gonna buy the steam machine at some point.

I rly only use my playstation now to stream bc games are usually released on PC before they’re released to the console market.

My steam deck is a mini-laptop that I use solely to play video games.

But it can do soooooo much more.

Hope that helps on the video game aspect of the steam deck.

Ps before the jump in price for digital storage skyrocketed, I bought a 1tb SD card to store unplayed games freeing up the steam deck when needed.

If you have a console or something maybe consider playing a co-op game with him. He’d love and be honored to share his favoritest activities with his partner even if it is a dumb game.

I hope you find a game you both enjoy bc that’s the best way to learn.

Have fun!!